Top HHS official doesn’t think the election will impact AI rules
Oct. 17, 2024
Bay Area Correspondent
The federal government’s top official in charge of regulating artificial intelligence in health care said the upcoming presidential election won’t impact regulations, despite fears from previous federal leaders that a Donald Trump administration could mean less tech oversight.
“We are just assuming that we are going to continue and the policies will continue, and we’re doing everything we can to get the right policies in place” in the Biden administration’s remaining few days, Micky Tripathi, assistant secretary for technology policy at the Department of Health and Human Services, said at STAT’s flagship summit this week.
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If Vice President Kamala Harris wins the election, “we’d expect a certain continuity of the policies we have,” said Tripathi, a Biden appointee who joined the federal government to oversee health IT in 2021. And if former president Trump resumes office, “we’ve had relative consistency across parties in terms of, you know, the focus on AI, the focus on interoperability.”
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